finger bob,
i'm guessing that the british gas engineers didn't have to concern themselves with having huge numbers of gas fitters hoping that any strike at bg would cause mass sackings so they could get jobs!
barps is a disgrace, not sure how many times i've agreed with that on this forum. striking to prevent its introduction would have been like turkeys voting for xmas.
it appears to me, and the trainers and recruiters i talk with, that BA management is in a head first race to see just how little of a package they can give a pilot and just how weak a DEP they can get the trainers to accept. given that we are on a forum that is full of people who routinely state how they will work for free and pay for their own type ratings i felt that any IA would just play into ba's and theese wannabees hands.
i made a decision based on practicality and realism. shameful i won't accept. wrong , only time will tell.
however the day BALPA starts growing some balls and acts as a combined unit, ie i won't steal your job at BA whilst you strike for my pension, then i will be on that picket line. the day that non-ba pilots stop praying for our downfall and portraying us as a bunch of spoilt prima donna's i'll be prepared to fight for an improvement in their t&c's.
i'll be on the picket line for naps. i'll support any BALPA move to get barps improved. you want to blame someone for barps, blame management, blame balpa for a fudged and quite frankly stupid position and blame all the desperate wannabees who think it's ok to take a job on any t&c and then wonder why things are getting worse.
ps please b4 anybody says i am being arrogant about the standard of deps, yes we are getting a lot of great guys and girls joining us but anybody who says we r not taking people that wouldn't have got to part 2 5 years ago is in denial. how many letters re-inviting interviews did we send out! i'm sure that was because we got enough applicants at a good enough standard! could it be that the guys who have options go to vs and elsewhere now! those are the guys and girls that deserve a pat on the back, know what your worth and don't accept less
